Hearing Tonight On Schools Plan

A plan that would require about 3,800 children to change schools next year will get final consideration by the Broward School Board tonight.

Board members have given preliminary approval to the plan, which would set boundaries for four new schools and shuffle children at several others to ease overcrowding.

More than 1,700 students would be assigned next year to temporary schools made up of portables. The students would stay at the temporary schools, which will cost $8.7 million, until permanent facilities can be built.

A public hearing on the plan is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. at Coconut Creek High School, 1400 NW 44th Ave., Coconut Creek.